EPA Curbs Use of 12 Bee-Harming Pesticides
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is pulling a dozen products containing toxic chemicals harmful to honeybees. It’s the end of a lengthy legal battle, but unfortunately not the end of the threat to bees. As a result of the lawsuit, the EPA has canceled registration, effective as of May 20, of the pesticides known to harm bees. They are from a class of chemicals called neonicotinoids produced by Bayer, Valent and Syngenta. The need for registration comes from The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, (a U.S. federal law that structured the basic system of pesticide regulation to protect...
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